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December:
How
is juggling 3 shows affecting David E. Kelley?
"Practice"
Actress Due To Have a Boy
Manheim
Expecting A Boy
Michael Badalucco in O
Brother, Where Art Thou?
TV
Guide Announces Nominees For Awards Show
IT'S A BOY!: Practice
Emmy-winner Camryn Manheim — due to give birth to her
first child in April — told Sunday's Parade magazine
that she is expecting a boy. The 39-year-old thesp has thus far
declined to name the baby's father. Our money is on David
Crosby.
Kelli Williams's Practice - from US Weekly
The actress juggles her role as a lawyer on The Practice with
her life as a pregnant mother at home by Monica Rizzo.
It's a typical morning at Kelli Williams's house. Her dogs,
Ella, a pit bull, and Petey, a Rhodesian Ridgeback mix, are
barking for her attention; her 2-year-old son, Kiran, lets it be
known that he's ready for his nap; and her pregnant belly tells
her she needs food--now. Luckily her husband, writer Ajay Sahgal,
appears, offering to help.
Williams kisses him goodbye and escapes a couple of minutes away
to her favorite corner table at Figaro Boulangerie, in Los Feliz,
CA. She orders an apple tart and a steaming cup of decaf
cappucino, then sits back and enjoys what happens next. Which is
nothing. It's a rare moment in her life, one that Williams
savors.
At 30, she looks sweet in black pants, a short-sleeved peasant
blouse and sandals. No makeup, no problems. Williams is in the
middle of her fifth season as defense attorney Lindsay Dole on
ABC's drama The Practice. After a shaky couple of seasons, the
series about a Boston law firm has come into it's own, routinely
landing in the top 10 Nielsen ratings The same can be said of
Williams, who is making her mark as the TV wife of Dylan
McDermott (her pregnancy has been written into the show).
"She has the twin virtues of self-assurance and
accessibility," says Practice executive producer Bob
Breech. "She has an ability to grab moments and make them
feel real."
Williams's real life is following the kind of script that ends
happily ever after. The youngest child of Shannon Wilcox, an
actress, and John Williams, a prominent plastic surgeon,
Williams and her older brother, Sean Williams, an Internet
developer, grew up in Bel-Air CA, surrounded by swimming pools
and movie stars (Sonny and Cher and Johnny Carson were neighbors).
While her father was busy reconfiguring the looks of the rich
and famous, he assured his daughter that she was perfect as is.
"He always joked with me that all the work I needed was
done in the womb," she says.
During her senior year at Beverly Hills High School, Williams
snagged the lead in Romeo and Juliet and afterward decided on
acting as a career. " I sent out probably 150 pictures--my
makeshift head shots--around town, and I think two people
responded," she says. "But I got an agent out of one
of them."
And work. In 1988, she landed a role on the sitcom Day by Day
with Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Williams's big break came in 1990,
when she played Elvis Presley's high-school sweetheart in the
Elvis television miniseries. She also received her first sizable
paycheck. "I bought a Land Cruiser," she says. "I
had a sticker on it that said ELVIS BOUGHT ME THIS CAR."
She found love when she met Sahgal in 1994. Though they had seen
each other around town, they connected one night at the Chateau
Marmont at a party celebrating the publication of Sahgal's first
novel, Pool. "We got along instantly," she says.
"He was a wanted man that evening." By the time they
married two years later in Montecito, CA, they were planning
ahead. "I always knew I wanted to be a mom," says
Williams. "There wasn't ever a time I didn't want
that."
She and Sahgal are expecting their second child in February. But
motherhood and a full-time acting job don't leave time to
schedule even morning sickness. "The first pregnancy, it
was nap whenever you want, go to a movie, go to dinner, drive
across town for a craving," she says. "But this time,
I can't nap unless [Kiran] is napping. I've never been more
tired in the last few years, but it's just life."
Williams regularly takes Kiran to the set, where her workday
runs 10 to 16 hours. There's a nanny to watch him when the
cameras are rolling, but between scenes Williams sings, reads,
and plays catch with her boy. When baby No. 2 arrives, she plans
to bring him or her to the set too. "She's found that
balance between being a successful actress and being a mom with
a family," Practice costar Marla Sokoloff says.
"They're both full-time jobs, and she always knows her
lines perfectly."
Well, not always. "One time when my son was very young, I
made the mistake of letting my nanny bring him in and watch a
rehearsal," says Williams. "I heard him coo, the
tiniest little noise. That was it, my brain was mush. I couldn't
remember a line to save my life."
Did you miss Late
Late Show with Craig Kilborn??? Kelli Williams was on
and she revealed... You better read
it here (Kelly's The Practice Site)
Practice
Star's New Role - What is Steve Harris doing now???
And Marla??? - Dude,
Where’s My Car?
Is
this the end of The Practice???
Who is dressing the pregnant Practice???
When a star is pregnant, she calls Lauren Sara.
Maternity wear designer Lauren Sara used to thumb through the
National Enquirer while doing her Sunday night grocery shopping,
looking for potential celebrity clients.
Although there are two pregnancy story lines currently under
way on ABC's "The Practice," where actresses Kelli
Williams and Camryn Manheim are both expecting, Sara's only been
involved in dressing Williams, for whom she's been asked to
provide some jackets, she said.
"Their recipe is very strict," she said, calling
for dark colors and conservative lines - a look more severe than
many of the real-life lawyers she dresses choose, she said.
The plus-size Manheim, Sara suspects, already has most of her
clothes custom-made and will probably continue that through her
pregnancy. "If it ain't broke, why fix it?" she said.
On "The Practice," she said, "the wardrobe
person won't tell me what's happening with the storyline of this
woman's [Williams'] pregnancy," she said. "And that so
doesn't matter to me. I need shoulder measurements."
Kelley
To Be Honored by Producer's Guild The
Practice's 32nd NAACP Image Awards Nominations
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Outstanding
Drama Series
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STEVE
HARRIS, Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series
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BEAH
RICHARDS, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama
Series
Emmy-winner Camryn Manheim ("The
Practice") stars as Sam, a funny but shy aspiring
comedian in The Last Laugh on ABC. Manheim
co-exec produces.
From Access Hollywood
Jack
Nicholson and Lara Flynn Boyle Together?
Here's more evidence Jack Nicholson and Lara Flynn Boyle are
still a couple.
(Manasquan, New Jersey-AP) -- Here's more evidence Jack
Nicholson and Lara Flynn Boyle are still a couple. Or, it's just
that she has a great interest in seeing school buildings.
Nicholson's taken Boyle on a tour of his old high school in
New Jersey.
There were there last week.
Manasquan High School plans on naming its auditorium after
Nicholson.
As it is, the school already presents the Jack Nicholson
Drama Achievement Award to the student who does the most for the
drama club.
Nicholson graduated high school in 1954. That was before
Boyle was born.
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